Rep. Scott Perry urges more transparency from NSA

The activist and former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden exposed just how widespread surveillance of ordinary Americans can be, and a midstate congressman wants to bring more transparency to the NSA.

Republican Scott Perry is asking the Agency to disclose when it started collecting phone and email records of Americans.

His proposal would also require an obscure setup, known as the FISA court, to disclose when it determines the U.S. government has broken the Constitution.

Perry, who represents Adams County and portions of York, Dauphin and Cumberland counties, says he doesn't trust those involved in the surveillance.

"They say take our word for it. And how do we know? How will we ever know if they never give us the information? Maybe it has kept us safer, or maybe they've just collected data on everybody and we don't really know if it's really done anything at all to keep us safer," he says.